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wide-eyed
adjective as in dewy-eyed
adjective as in gullible
adjective as in innocent
Weak matches
adjective as in naive
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- aboveboard
- artless
- callow
- candid
- confiding
- countrified
- credulous
- forthright
- frank
- fresh
- green
- guileless
- gullible
- harmless
- impulsive
- ingenuous
- innocuous
- instinctive
- jejune
- lamb
- like a babe in the woods
- natural
- open
- original
- patsy
- plain
- simple-minded
- spontaneous
- square
- sucker
- unaffected
- unjaded
- unpretentious
- unschooled
- unsuspecting
- unsuspicious
- untaught
- unworldly
- virgin
adjective as in pure
Weak matches
- babe in woods
- blameless
- celibate
- cherry
- continent
- exemplary
- guileless
- immaculate
- inculpable
- innocent
- inviolate
- irreproachable
- kid
- lily white
- maidenly
- modest
- pure as driven snow
- righteous
- sinless
- spotless
- stainless
- unblemished
- unblighted
- uncorrupted
- undefiled
- unprofaned
- unspotted
- unstained
- unsullied
- upright
- virgin
- virtuous
- wet behind ears
adjective as in unsophisticated
adjective as in unworldly
Example Sentences
“No, she’s not,” I sign back, wide-eyed as I watch my grandmother attacking a folk hero from Ghanaian mythology.
Then she caught a glimpse of her reflection, bedraggled and wide-eyed.
Beowulf remarked that Lady Constance already behaved as if every day were her birthday, and all three children grew wide-eyed at the thought of what she might be like on the actual day.
“It is that important,” Penelope replied, but with the three children gazing up at her, wide-eyed with curiosity, she had no intention of explaining just how mouthwatering the admiral’s plans for Bertha were.
Still wide-eyed at the memory, he calls the test the most consequential event of his life.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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